that was something stipulated by the law. but basically, what the hope is, is that the federal government by now they're gog have to set up probably 30 extinction instead-- it was assumed 10 or 15-- the idea is that they'll get an idea of how to do it since they're going to have to set up so many. perhaps it won't be quite so expensive to do that. but the idea of letting the states do it was that the states knew best what their insurance markets looked like. this was to give these states that will probably be resistant a chance to have some control over what was going to happen. instead, the states sort of said, "we're just going to wash our hands of this. we don't know how much it's going to cost. we don't really have any interest in facilitating this law because we don't like it so we're just going to step away and let the federal government do it. >> suarez: and create a paradoxical situation? many republican governors, the thing they hate more than anything is federal influence in their business, and here they are invitin